| zero129 said: But now that the steam sales are well and truly over this is what i picked up. |
I purposely didn't fire up Steam so I wouldn't buy any games. Haha
I feel the Steam sales aren't as amazing as they used to be though.
| Chazore said: Sod it, I was trying to look for other parts this morning, but now I'm just going to order all the parts while I still can. I changed my Zotac Amp Extreme back to the Strix 1080ti because £805 for a few Hz more is just plain silly.
This rise in price bs is getting really old really fast. Not only do we have this to deal with, but those Bitcoin miners as well. |
If you can... The General consensus is to 'wait' on upgrading. Unless you really need to.
The only real exception is if you are going to jump onto Ryzen.
Intel LGA2066 is an overpriced buggy flop, AMD/nVidia GPU price rises, DDR4/SSD's have been increasing in price...
Even mechanical disks seem to be higher priced compared to just a couple years ago.
| fatslob-:O said: You forget that performance is about the software as it is much about hardware. It's like once John Carmack said, "AMD has the better engine, Nvidia has the better car" ... You need more than just good hardware to beat your competition, you need good software support as well. I'm surprised as to why AMD hasn't been as proactive as before in trying to get all AAA game engines to support DX12 because AMD's whole lineup would 1 tier higher comparable to the equivalent Nvidia cards than they are now ... |
I never disagreed. Performance is certainly about the software as much as hardware.
But as the numbers stand today. Vega is not competitive. Polaris is not competitive. Vega needed to launch 12 months ago with Navi coming out today.
Just remember, I do primarily own AMD GPU's, so I am not talking from an opposing 'fanboy' perspective. :P
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